Gee The Daily Kos sure has some weird ideas about how the story is really a hoax.

Especially, the live broadcast. The fact that weiner delayed himself coming into the hotel room.

And, the happenstance that Breitbart happened to have gone into the room. There was no one at the door checking ID.

I guess if you bring a camera and lights to a weiner function ... you're just allowed in. And, shown where all the electrical sockets are.

GOOD FOR BREITBART! WOW! For Marcia Kramer, too. Just walking over and asking Breitbart to "take the podium" so she could ask him questions. And, all the reporters reacted with joy that "someone important" was there to mount the empty podium.

LIGHTS. CAMERA.

It sure pays to show up on time, though. I wonder what went through weiner's head when he saw Breitbart just up there?

But I mean to be just played and used like that, like an old hacksaw, like some lonely old lady's favorite anal beads. And then to have to face the world after you've just been played and used.

That is the very definition of losing every shred of dignity.

Don't worry, though, Ole Kos, old pal. The Catholic Church says you still have some, just by virtue of being a human. Of course, there's lots of perverts in that Catholic Church. So it's probably back to the anal beads.

Do you really think a sitting Congressman would send out a link to a picture like this on Twitter?

There's no "maybe" about this. The accusation is ludicrous on its face.

People who want to "investigate the evidence" would be well-advised to have a slight understanding of Bayesian statistics. The probability that a sitting Congressman would post to Twitter a link to a photo that would destroy his career is...zero. It's not small, it's zero."

You take a site that originally made stock picks based on astrology, get it in trouble with the S.E.C. so they have to switch to politics, then get the gullible to rally around their new lies until - voila! - you put the man Oprah cultishly called "The One" into the White House.

And the best part is, everyone denies that NewAge had anything to do with it.

The only thing that jumps out at me is the large number of female teachers who have sex with their underage male students. But I can't imagine there's a lot of cajoling going on there.

A better answer might be that women just don't have the urge to have random, meaningless sex as much as men do. I talk about New Pussy Syndrome. I've never heard of New Cock Syndrome among straight males. That may be an issue in the gay male community.

All former Lizoids: Fascinating how old Charlie went from being a rabid hippie bike pedaler to staunch conservative (?) back now to being a rabid hippie bike pedaler with aspirations of being a Socialist Champion!

Of course, the first hint way back then was than Charles, as he liked to be called, another hint in and of itself, did not tolerate calling the followers of the Al Qaeda bunch "Ragheads," which his cutesy blog scripts changed to be read "Arab." So, with some silliness, it was possible for a comment to include the terms Arab Arab and not have been repetitive.

Still, Charles is what he is now, a complete asshole, whose blog only allows those who acknowledge his truth to post comments of his liking.

I know a guy who, at least when he as a college student, was a very good-looking guy. Went to a big school in a great college town. One night, he decided that he was going to hit on girls something like this: "Hey, you are cute. Wanna have sex?"

It didn't go well. But at about number 20 or so, he hit upon the right girl, and she said yes, and they went outside and had sex.

I could never get away with that.

I've had my share of one-night stands. And it takes two people to hook up, so it's not like women aren't hooking up for one-night flings.

A couple of my own situations happened where I really wanted to have something more with the girl, and I pursued that, and she rebuffed me. However, more often, it's me and, generally, the guy involved who wants it to be a one-time thing. Not for nothing do we hear women in popular culture lamenting: "He never called!"

One final aside, it's been my experience that the woman calls the shots about how far things go. I've never said, "No. I'd rather not fuck," or stopped a girl from taking my pants off.

Elizabeth I, the 'virgin' Queen, had a thing for powerful, married men--the women of the court feared for her husbands fidelity. But she didn't do it with a lot of them.

Catherine the Great had a succession of younger lovers--she had a type; young-but-not-too-young, tall, military officers. But, again, she would have a boyfriend for a few years, HE would cheat on her, she would get mad for a while, the cheating young man would become very rich and retire to the countryside, THEN she would get a new boyfriend.

Nothing compared with the many men in power who would bed every semi-attractive female in sight.

Do you think that Kos will be in any way put out with Weiner for telling such lies? My guess is no. Everyone lies about their sex lives Weiner was doing it to protect his family. Just because a charge is true doesn't mean it isn't scurrilous, and Breitbart is at fault because he made such scurrilous charges. You have got to admire his credibility and trust--it's like a five year old writing to Santa.....Someone should buy Weiner that novelty underwear that says "Home of The Whopper". I think there's a fair chance that his latest press conference contained a few whoppers which the press and Kos will munch on contentedly.

I know a guy who, at least when he as a college student, was a very good-looking guy. Went to a big school in a great college town. One night, he decided that he was going to hit on girls something like this: "Hey, you are cute. Wanna have sex?"

It didn't go well. But at about number 20 or so, he hit upon the right girl, and she said yes, and they went outside and had sex.

By the way, not to go nevadabob on you, but that's exactly the kind of thing a psychopath would do. Just sayin'.

When I was younger, I was more enticing than a string of cooch beads, and I was often dragged home by older women who usually had high powered jobs, we're wealthy or otherwise used to just getting what they wanted, when they wanted it. I was in no position to argue, and I knew my place. They can be quite frightening with their power.

Ruy -- No. You have to know this guy. Heart of gold. Really, genuinely good. The larger point is that he wanted to cut through all the bullshit and just get laid. He wanted to see if anybody else wanted to do that, too. Most didn't, but one girl did.

Here's another funny story about him. He once got crab lice. He didn't go to the doctor. Instead, he went to the gas station, got some gasoline, doused his cock and pubes with gasoline, and then shaved every inch of his genital area.

The Dems are abandoning the Wild Weiner now. He may have too much seniority for Pelosi's future plans. But he will be hard to replace. Weiner was able to argue faster than a reporter could speak all the while fixing them with his glazed over eyes and self righteous certainty. That is one type of charismatic gift...the type that enables its carrier to slander the innocent faster than an MG 42 can fire.

Yea, I just watched that video of the lying bastard from earlier in the week. Goddamned psycho. To watch it knowing what we know now is flat out scary. I could not lie that aggressively even with a lot of practice. Gifted man.

Liberals' levitation lacking luster:Biden tried it on a lame man, using oral commands; Obama tried it on the US economy, using porculus; Weiner tried it on his weiner, using whatever he thought clever.

The liberal track record is better at hijacking the truth:Whenever a lying liberal is twisting in the winds of veracity, his comrades start huffing and puffing to blame conservatives. It matters not that the tales defy logic and one another; it's easier to sell a sweet lie than a harsh truth. Under FDR's reign this tactic was called 'maneuvering', the current administration has renamed it 'designated devolving'.

"2) Anthony Weiner does not look like that. Go to his website – he has more hair and his complexion is not that dark. Also, having heard him speak many times, I know he does not talk like the guy in the press conference. He’s a lot more combative, louder, and funnier."

What I want to know is how someone managed to hack the website of a known wing nut like Ann Althouse, post on her blog, and uber-spoof it with this fake-but-real thread from Daily Kos, one, I would add, (the original) that was updated repeatedly, but this one of which contains key "adjustments" integrated into the original, but with "shadow" inserts that were cleverly intended to convey the impression that Kos (and commenters) harbored subtle but unmistakable paranoid tendencies -- it's like they don't know that we read the original thread MANY TIMES! And I suppose ALL of this was done without Althouse OR her "sidekick" Meade noticing a thing? Come on! Did they think no one would notice?

I know many leftists who are closet astrology lovers. The overlap would be an interesting thing to explore from a philosophical and psychological standpoint.

I see them as what they are - The NewAge Movement - as real as The Christian Right, or The Moral Majority, or what have you. Only their structure - which mirrors Al Qaeda's - is different and allows them the freedom to work undetected. That, and the fact so many in the press are in bed with them.

I sincerely think it's the biggest unreported religious story - if not the biggest story, considering their interests and influence, within and outside of politics - of our time.